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Tuesday, 15 January 2013

Pop Bang Colour artist paints Gordon Shedden's BTCC Honda

This
weekend racing fans got a real treat at Europe’s largest dedicated
motorsport exhibition, The Autosport Show, as drivers from all areas
of motorsport came together to celebrate racing on four wheels.

This
year’s Autosport Show illustrated a real celebration of the Honda
Yuasa Racing team and current British Touring Car Champion Gordon
‘Flash’ Shedden. Contemporary British artist Ian Cook, known as
PopbangColour, paints using only radio controlled cars, car tyres and
toy car wheels and as the Honda Civic Type R was the first car Ian
painted in this unique way, he felt right at home tackling a Honda
again.

Gordon Shedden’s 2012 BTCC winning Honda Civic was a
natural choice for this year's Autosport Show. While working on a
project in Europe during the final round of the 2012 BTCC season, Ian
used the Popbangcolour Twitter feed to announce that he would create
the car that won the championship as an artwork at Autosport. With
Flash crowned champion, Ian arranged to create the artwork live on
the Popbangcolour.com stand on the public days of the
event.

Painting in front of a live audience and to a deadline,
with the world watching on social media channels, adds its own
challenges. When asked about how he feels about performing with an
audience, Ian commented, “I love the pressure of people watching an
artwork being created, whether they are attending the event in person
or watching the artwork unfold online.” Ian continued to say “The
Autosport Show offers the perfect event to produce such an artwork,
as there are many BTCC and race fans there to watch and share my
progress across social media platforms.”

We met Ian Cook last year - and we'll be bringing you an update from the paint splattered one from this year's show soon - meanwhile, here he is painting a very special art work at the 2012 Autosport show